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THE SOUTHERN STAPLE. Cotton and its culture is at present a leading theme in our newspapers, and is receiving marked attention at the hands of specialists. The Atlanta International Cotton Exposition has doubtless aroused public attention to this great staple in an un usual degree. Harper's Magazine, for October, has a well written and elaborately illustrated article on "Cotton and Its Kingdom,” which will be widely read. The pre liminary Census Report on the cotton production of the United States fur nishes, also, very interesting and sug gestive facts. The official figures show that the in crease in our cotton industry has been uniform with the general growth and progress of the country during the past ten years. The total product of the census year was 5,737,257 bales, from an acreage of 14,441,993 acres. The total product of the census year 1869-70 was 3,122,551, an increase in favor of the present of 2,614,706 bales. Before the war, in 1859 ’6O, however, the cotton product was 4,861,292, the highest point by hundreds of thous ands it had ever reached up to that time, and an exceptional yield, since in the year following, before the effects of the war had been felt in the cotton fields, the total fell to 3,849,469. What it was during the years of recovery fol lowing the war will be seen from these figures, which form a basis for com parison with the present marked ad vance : Total cotton product in 1865, 2,269,316 bales, 1866,2,097,254 ; 1867, 2,519,554 ; 1868, 2.366,467 ; 1869, 3,- 122,551; 1870, 4,362,317 ; 1871, 3,- 014,351. The figures by decades show : 1830, 976,845 bales; 1840, 1,634,954 ; 1850, 2,233,718; 1860. 4,861,292; 1870, 3,122,551; 1880,5,737,257. The most interesting table in the present report is that showing the to tal product by States, together with the acreage and population, as follows: States in order of production. Population. Acres. Bales Mi55i55ippi.....1,131,592 2,093,330 9; 5,808 Ge0rgia.;.1,512,180 2,617,138 814,441 Texa51,592,574 2,173,73 2 803,642 A1abama1,262,5'5 2,330,0f6 699,654 Arkansas 802,525 1,042,976 6* 1 8,256 South Carolina 995,577 1,364,249 522 548 Louisiana 919,946 864,787 508,569 North Car01ina1,399,750 893,153 389 598 Tennesseel,s42,463 722,569 330,644 Florida 269,493 24>,595 51 997 Mi550uri...2,163,804 32,711 19,733 Indian Territory 35,000 17,000 Virginial,sl2.s64 24,000 11,000 Kentucky„.l,64B.69o 2,667 1,367 .*■ T0ta116,808,664 14,441,993 5,737,257 When the States are taken by the average production per acre, the order is changed as follows : Missouri, 0.60 ; Louisiana, 0.59 ; Arkansas, 0.58 ; Ken tucky, 0.51 ; Indian Territory, 0.49 ; Virginia, 0.46 ; Tennessee, 0.46 ; Mis sissippi, 0.46; North Carolina, 0.44; South Carolina, 0.38; Texas, 0.37; Georgia, 0.31; Alabama, 0.30; Florida, The white population of these States is 11,024.123, the colored population 5,784,541. The present report does not show any obvious relation between the total production and the number, or the ratio to the total number of the colored .population, and the more de tailed report will be necessary to dis close how large a proportion of the cotton is produced by the colored peo ple. A comparison of the total popu lation of the States of the cotton belt proper, from North and South Carolina to Texas, shows in all but two cases an approximation to the proportion of one bale for every two inhabitants. The exceptional States are Mississippi and Arkansas, in which the ratio is from two-thirds to over three-fourths of a bale per head. From the table it will be seen that Mississippi stands first in production, though sixth in population, of the thirteen cotton States. With regard to this large production, which equals over eight-tenths of a bale per head, the report says: “At first blush, in view of the great fertility and area of the Mississippi ‘Yazoo’ bottom within the limits of the State, the inference would be that the high position of the State’s pro ductions is due to these fertile lowlands. But a detailed discussion of the areas of production shows that a little over one-fourth (27 percent.) only of the cotton product of the State comes from the Yazoo bottom, while over one-half of the whole is produced in what might be termed the first-class uplands, viz., the table land belt bordering the Mis sissippi bluff, and the two prairie belts. It thus appears that the high produc tion of Mississippi is due to the fact that quite one-half of its territory is occupied by soils of exceptional fertili ty, coupled with the circumstance that cotton culture is the one pursuit to which the population devotes itself. Even with the imperfect tillage and in complete picking of the crop now pre vailing in the Yazoo bottom, the pres ent average product per acre is over three-quarters of a bale; and estimat ing the lands reclaimaßle by simple exclusion of the Mississippi overflows at only three millions of acres, the an nual production could thus readily be raised to 2,250,000 bales, without any change in the method of culture, in the Yazoo bottom alone. With im proved cultivation the production • could easily be brought up to 5,000,- 000 bales; and thus with a similar improvement in the culture of the up lands, it is evident that the State of Mississippi alone could produce the entire crop now grown in the United States.” “And it is added still to this encour aging statement of future possibilities, that this estimate, so far from being too high, does not adequately state the possibilities within reach of careful . .WWMM bSMi I I .11 fl */.1l |l\| SHs . I®ILTkV I 1 I 111 H Secular Editorials—Literature— v Domestic and Foreign Intelligence. culture. It will do, though, when the capacity of some of the other States is taken into account, to convince the world that the cotton supply of this country, like the coal and iron supply, is not likely to be exhausted by any demands that may bemadeupon them.” It is interesting to note that Georgia, which stands second in the list, has but a very limited area of what are con sidered first and second-class soils in Mississippi, and owes her position to bet ter cultivation of the soil and to thrift, rather than to natural advantages. Texas is third in production, first in population and possibilities, since it is said that, compared to the area of fer tile lands susceptible to cotton culture, the present cotton acreage of Texas is almost insignificant. The cotton production in the two Carolinas is considered of special inter est, because these two members of the original Union of thirteen States have been the first to place cotton culture upon a permanent foundation, by adopting a system of regular returns to the soil. As a result the average pro duct per acre is high as compared with that of Georgia and Alabama, and in North Carolina approaches that of Mississippi. The value and necessity of a proper use of fertilizers is becom ing more and more recognized by the cotton-grower. And the figures given show how sure is the South in its de pendence uppn cotton as its leading source of wealth and profit. SjfoXEY LANIBX. ■ CHARLES W. HUBNER. I place a prism to my upturned eye— The Sun god’s golden arrow cleaves it through, And wondrous flashing splendor fills the blue! A thousand shimmering rainbows arch the sky In glorious, intermingling radiancy; The gross, the common lades from out my view, And earth in Eden beauty shines anew, Robed in her ancient Virgin purity. Such the etherlal, glorifying powers , Os thy rare verse, O crystal-souled Lanier' For Truth thy pen did potent warfare jfrgo— ! (F'hrk-l’s spe-tr i:bva-<Hhr w; AvttUd Lo 1 Art and Genius weep beside thy bier, O Bard 1 whose song recalls the Goldeu Age. NOTES. Intelligence received from the War ner Observatory, Rochester, New York, announces the discovery of a new comet located in the constellation of Virgo. It is a striking coincidence that this new and bright comet appeared at the same hour President Garfield was breathing his last. It was first seen by E. E. Barnard in Nashville, Tenn., who has made claim through Prof. Swift for the Warner prize of S2OO in gold. This makes the fifth comet seen since May first, and of this number four have appeared in almost the same spot in the heavens. —The subscriptions to the fund in aid of the Garfield family amounts already to between three and four hun dred thousand dollars. —Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, is ready for trial, and expresses his belief in his acquittal. He claims that malice cannot be proved. —Twenty-eight thousand French troops embarked in one day at Toulouse forTunis. The total annexation of Tunis by the French was a foregone con clusion. —Parnell has been eulogized by a speaker at a great mass-meeting in Dublin as “the greatest man the Irish race has ever produced.” If matter ship in virulent demagoguery consti tutes “greatness” then is Parnell “great”—the word has certainly many perverted uses. —We had the pleasure of a call this week from Mr. J. M. G. Medlock, the clever and intelligent agent of The Christian Index—the best edited de nominational paper in the State. The Baptist who fails to takeTHEINDEX lives beneath his privilege.— Sparta Ishmae lite. —The cholera has appeared in Arabia. —An International Socialist Con gress assembled at Barcelona, in Spain, with five hundred delegates attending. It has approved the terms of a mani festo to be sent to all Socialist societies. A communication from a number of Russians in London concurs in the objects of the congress. The president and secretary of the congress have beet arrested for expressing approval of the preceedings of the Nihilists. According to the reports of the Treasury Department, just published, the total value of our exports for the year ending August 31st, was $894,- 695,274, and the value of imports $643,163,664. The decrease in the value of imports from the preceding year was $53,990,854, and the increase of exports $30,451,215. The total re ceipts Irom internal revenue will reach $150,000,000. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1881. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. Three important circulars have late ly been issued by the Bureau of Educa tion. The first on the Spelling Re form, gives a condensed historical ac count of the spelling reform movement both in this country and in England. An appendix gives a full reference-list to the literature of the spelling reform. The second circular deals with the re lation of education to industry and technical training in American schools; and the third is an illustrated pam phlet on the construction of library buildings. We have received the "Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year of 1879.” Published by the United States Government. Scribner's Monthly, for October, ha§ an unusually interesting variety of valuable articles; among the papers are to be noted : Old Yorktown, an an ecdotal and descriptive sketch, illus trated by Blum and Pennell; The New Phase of Napoleonic History, as view ed in the light shed upon it by Lan frey, Metternich and Remusat ; A Plea for Railroads, an authoritative and im partial paper. Bear-hunting in the South, a personal experience, striking ly illustrated ; Primeval California, an illustrated sketch of a vacation in the wilderness. Queen Titania, Boyesen’s novelette concluded; Miss Asia’s Match, a bright short story, by Isa bella T. Hopkins. Poetry in Ameri ca, a concise and valuable contribution by Edmund Clarence Stedman ; The Sonnet in English Poetry, historical and critical, by R. H. Stoddard ; Book Reviews, etc., etc. The Forests of the Sierras, with illustrations by Swain, Gifford, Smilie, Vanderhoof, and oth ers ; The Migration of Birds; A New Moth, (Smerinthus Cablei,) with an illustration engraved by Henry Marsh. Aldus, “The First Editor,” by Theo dore L. De Vinne, with illustrations ; |jje actor. Peter the Great, Eugene Schuy ler’s Illustrated History, is finished. This great work, it is expected, will be followed by a series of papers by the celebrated Russian novelist, Ivan Tur gueneff. on Russia of To-Day. Mrs. Burnett’s new novel, Through One Administration, a Washington story, will begin in the November number, the first of the new series of “Scribner,” to be known as “The Century Maga zine.” Readers of St. Nicholas will rejoice to hear that Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge has written a serial story for the mag azine, to be called Donald and Dorothy. Edward Eggleston has catered to the boys, by writing The Horsie School- Boy. Both stories will be published very soon. Illusions: A Psychological Study. By Janies Sully. D. Appleton & Co., .New York, publishers. This is another important link of The International Scientific Series of this enterprising publishing house. The volume embraces a number of ar ticles that have been carefully elabora ted and perfected in their original form as magazine papers, and the result is a curiously interesting work on a real ly attractive subject. The work treats not only of the illusions of sense that form the subject of treatieses on physi ological optics, but embraces also in its view the errors commonly designated as illusions, and which resemble the former in form and origin. It is a strange and, in some respects, a fasci nating study, in which fact and fancy play an important part. A Selection From the Letters of Madame De Remusat To Her Husband and Son from 1804 to 1813 From the French by Mrs. Cash el Hoey and Mr John Lillie. D. Appleton & Co. New York, publishers. Those who have read the “Memoirs” of this gifted and charmingly garru lous lady will take pleasure in reading this volume, filled with selections from her epistolary correspondence with her husband, who held high office under the Emperor. They are of interest as showing the chequered, gay and brill iant salon life of the French capital in the most brilliant period of its his tory. Distinguished personages in French civic and military circles, the celebrities of fashion and of art, are al luded to in these letters with refresh ing candor, and the peculiar spiciness of which the French pen, especially in the hands of brilliant French wo men, is so capable. Mme. Remusat’s self, as revealed in her letters, is, in it . elf, an interesting study. “Perhaps,” says the Saturday Review, “however, the most really interesting thing in the book is its display of the affectionate, vivacious, acute, but somewhat hasty, nature of the writer. Mme. de Remu sat never cooled in her affection for her husband, and theoretically acquiesced in the doctrine which husbands find it hard to make wives believe—that in absence business makes correspond ence difficult. Every now and then there are the oddest little outbursts of wounded feeling, because a letter has hot come or has been cold in style, out bursts which are almost invariably fol lowed by penitential apologies. Alto together, the book, if it does not add very much to actual historical knowl edge, adds agreeably to the literature rtf biography.” The International Review, A. S. Barnes & Co., publishers, New York, for October, opens with a very able ar ticle upon “The Treasury and the Banks,” by Mr. H. W. Richardson, ed itor of the Portland Advertiser. It is an exhaustive and exceedingly inter esting discussion of the currency prob lem, and will be sure to attract the at tention of." 11 bankers, as well as those less intimately connected with the pres ent greenback system. Mr. Wm. My all contributes a critical and biograph ical essay upon “John Wesley.” The author of the best recent book upon Carlyle, Mr. Edwin D. Mead, is entire ly at home in a scholarly essay upon ‘ Immanuel Kant,” dealing with the subject in a dual capacity—Kant the riian, and his philosophical doctrines. A third biographical article is “Roscoe Ccnkling,” by Mr. F. W. Whitridge. Rev. Wm. E. Boggs, D. D„ of Atlanta, Ga., replies to an article recently pub lished in this Review upon “The Solid South,” by Mr. Edward Atkinson. It sterns this article of Mr. Atkinson’s has been the cause of considerable ftxcitement in certain circles at the South, and the reply here published b one of many offered to the editors. It is evidently meant to be fair and candid, and is valuable be i cause of its Southern origin. “The Southern Educational Problem,” by Mr. Walter H. Page, is also a timely contribution to current topics and of considerable interest. L Popular Science Monthly, D. .fppfcTton & Co.f York’ in the October number maintains its high rank in the realm of philosophic and scientific thought. The following is the rich table of contents presented by this number: Physical Education. By Felix L. Oswald, M. D. Remedial Education (continued). The Practi cal Business of Life Insurance. By Theodore Wehle. How the Earth is Weighed. By Dr. Otto Walterhofer. (Illustrated.) The Development of Political Institutions. By Herbert Spencer. X.—The Militant Type of Society. The Cultivation of Medical Science. By Sir James Paget. In crease and Movement of the Colored Population. By J. Stahl Patterson. 11. Movement. About Comets. By Aaron Nichols Skinner. (Illustrated.) The Connection of the Biological Sciences with Medicine. By Professor T. H. Huxley. Progress in the Manu facture of Steel. By A. K. Hunting ton. Intelligence of Ants. 11. By George J. Romanes. Forest-Culture in Alpine Ravines. By M. J. Cleve. Cattle-Raising in South America. By M. Couty. Sketch of Professor (Jliarles A. Young. (With portrait.) Correspondence. Editor’s Table. Literary Notices. Popular Miscellany. Notes. Littell's Living Age, Littell & Co., Boston, publishers, is, as usual, excel lent. The last two numbers for Sep tember, and the first number for Octo ber, contain articles on Schlieman’s “Uios: ” the Site of Troy, Quarterly; The Future of Islam, Fortnightly; Lawn Tennis and its Players, and Scottish, Shetlandic and Germanic Water Tales, Contemporary, Besieged in the Transvaal, Blackwood; The Great Southern Comet of 1880, and Nassau Senior’s Journals and Conver sations, Fraser; Arthur Penrhyn Stan ley, and Cutzola, Macmillian; The Lafayette Family, Figaro; Protective Diseases, Masked Heartlessness, The Grievance of being Overestimated, Summer Coolness in Poetry, and Wo men at Fifty, Spectator; Camping-out on the St. Lawrence, An Ancient Illy rian Capital, Pall Mall; Recollections of George Borrow, Atheneeum-, Brig ands and their Captives, Public Opin ion ; with instalments of “In Trust,” and “The Freres,” and the usual amount of poetry. A new volume begins with October; now is a good time to subscribe. As announced in our last issue Rev. Dr. Spalding of this city has accepted the unanimous call of the First Bap tist church of Galveston, Texas. In the words of an esteemed contemporary : “Texas has indeed won a man who is worthy of her confidence and esteem.” —lt is stated that President Arthur desires the election of Se iat< r David Davis to the presidency of ti e Senate. ALBERT THEODORE SPALDING. The following sketch of this distin guished minister’s and pastor’s life, taken from the “Biographical Compen dium of Georgia Baptist Ministers,” just issued from The Index press,will be read with interest by the brethren in Texas and elsewhere: Rev. Albert Theodore Spalding, son of Albert M. Spalding and Lucinda Barton, was born in Elbert county, Georgia, October 20th, 1831. While he was an infant, his father gave up a lucrative medical practice, entered on the duties of a minister of the Gospel, and soon became the successful pastor of the Baptist church at Greenville, South Carolina. In that picturesque and beautiful spot the early childhood of the subject of this sketch was spent. There his young mind acquired the foundation of a good education, in the classic school of "good old father Leary," which gave Green ville an early and lasting fame. At twelve years of age, with his father's family, he returned to his native State, and Gainesville, Georgia, became his home for the next eight vears. Four of these eight were spent at Mercer University, where he graduated in 1851, bearing off one of the honors of his class. In the beginning of his collegiate life, when entering bis sixteenth year, he was savingly converted to God, and wasbaplized by Rev. B. M. Sanders, pastor of the Penfield church. At its close, when twenty years of age. be decided to consecrate his lite to the preaching of the Gospel, and was licensed by that church. Then, for the first time, he learned that when but a few days old, he was solemnly set apart by bis parents, on a day of prayer,.to the service of God. Return ii iLo peiiflejfl he spent twb years in. the theological department of Me,cer University; an inmate of the home of Dr. N. M. Craw ford, enjoying the benefit of his instruction, and the advantagesand moulding influences of an intimacy with him, such as few pupils ever sustained towards a teacher. On completing his theological course, Mr Spalding, at the age of twenty-two, accepted a call as temporary supply by the First Bap tist church in Augusta. It is pleasing to record that Dr. Wm. H. Turpin, a venerable and large hearted deacon of this church, bore most of Mr. Spalding’s expenses, as his benefactor, during his collegiate course of six years—an act of generosity as produc tive of good as it was worthily bestowed, t he pulpit of the Greene Street church was rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr. J. G. Binney, in anticipation of a return to missionary life in Burmah ; but, as this pur pose was for a time abandoned, the Augusta church, which had reluctantly given him up, recalled him, and Mr. Spalding, after three mouths’ work id Augusta, accepted a call to the church in Aiken, South Carolina. I'here he was ordained, in March, 1854. He remained in Aiken, as pastor, two years, during which he was united in marriage to Miss Constance Schaffner, of Charleston, South Carolina, a lady whose refined culture, in the best schools of Charleston and of New York, prepared her to bea worthy co laborer in the Master’s work. From Aiken he went to Madison, Georgia, where he was pastor four years, when he was called to the B-reau Baptist church, of West Philadelphia, Penn sylvania. During his pastorate of eighteen months this church was almost doubled in numbers. After the late war had com menced. feeling that theSouth was his home, he left Philadelphia, returned to his native section and took charge of the Selma, Ala bama, Baptist church, which during his pastorate of four years, became one of the leading churches in the State. After the war he accepted a call of the St. Francis Street church, at Mobile, which he served for nearly four years with such zeal and pronounced success that it has taken rank with the first churches in the land. He then moved to Loci ville, Kentucky,beinge!ected pastor of the Walnut Street church, one of the largest and wealthiest churches on the continent During his pastorate thischurcb began to build and completed a splendid structure as a house of worship for a colony of her members, which, at present, consti tutes the Broadway church, of which Dr. J. L. Burrows is pastor. It also built the Orphans’ Home, one of the noblest monu meats of Kentucky’s beneficence. Here the health of brother Spalding failed, and his physicians advised his removal south as a necessity. Just then the providence of God offered him the pastorate of the Seoond Bap tist church, Atlanta, Georgia, to which city be moved in 1871. Jt wa- during his resi dence in Kentucky that the degree of Doc tor of Divinity was conferred on Mr. Spald ing, by Georgetown College, in 1869 He has remained in charge of the Second church of Atlanta until the present time, the salu brity of the climate having restored his health Dr. Spalding possisres a mind remarkably fecund in illustration, a style as remarkably fluent and felicitous, and no less remarkable powers of pathos. These qualities clothe his pulpit utterances with a b’gb degree of at tractiveness and effect, which he uses in the interest of evangelical truth, and under the promptings of an enlightened, warm hearted concern for every form of benevolent and Christian enterprise. His record as a pastor is one of great,varied and uniform efficiency. Few men have friends more strongly at tached to him, and the stars in the crown of his rjoicii g will be. for number a galaxy. Like every person of decided views and per sistent lines of action, be has encountered hostility, and differences of taste may have caused estrangen e it in other cases; but his integri y as a man, his devotion as a Chris tian, and his usefulness as a minister, stand unimpeactied and unimpeachable. He ranks witii our best and foremost men ; and ns many ardent sympathies gather about h m living many tender regrets will follow him when he'dies. GEORGIA NEWS. —A telephone exchange is to be established in Rome. —A strike among the workmen of Macon is apprehended. —Walton county will make two-thirds of a corn and cotton crop. —About 15 000 gallons of wine will be manufactured at Cuthbert. —The gold mines at the head of the Eto wah are closed for repairs. —The new locomotives on the Atlanta and West Point railroad have paper wheels.) —There will be an average of one bale of cotton to every four acres throughout Wilkes county. —Caterpillars are destroying the cotton in Baldwin county. They will probably cut off the top crop entirely. —The Covington Star learns that there is a good deal of typhoid fever and diphtheria in portions of Jasper county. —Twelve negroes were drowned while attempting to cross the river near Savannah in a ferry boat Friday morning. —The Bainbridge merchants are doing a good business, and collections are above the average thus early in the season. —Dalton has a new highway running over the mountains into Walker county, which is expected largely to increase her trade. —A Georgia Legislature declares that there are tive thousand minors in the State of Georgia employed in the sale of liquor. l'he people of Hamilton are jubilant over the passage of the bill granting them a branch of the State Agricultural College. —Mr. George I Seney has offered to send his check for $5,000 to build a chapel at the Lucy Cobb Institute if the citizens of Athens will subscribe $4 000. —The bakeries and candy factories of Atlanta have a capacity of 450 barrels of flour per day. They ship bread and crackers all over the country. —The Quitman Free Press says it is be lieved that Brooks county can spare several thousand bushels of corn and have plenty left for her own needs. —The Augusta police force are to have new winter uniforms. It is the regulation New York police uniform—dark blue cloth and black helmet hats. —The Dawson Journal says: “We learn from several of our farmer friends who have gathered their corn, that it is turning out much better than was at first anticipated.” —Governor Colquitt has offered a reward of two hundred and fifty dollars for the ins cendiary who burnt the gin house of Mrs. Catharine Trammell, in Pulaski county, recently. —The Watkinsville Advance thinks the late revivals in that county have done much good, about two hundred and twenty souls having been converted and added to the several churches. —The riot among the negro laborers in Savannah, which at one time were very threatening, were suppressed by the firm ness and excellent management of the city and police authorities. —Talbot county has several genuine cork trees on the places of Mr. H. S. Smith, Belle view, and Mr. J. D. Kendall, near Redbone. The seed were sent to that county in 1856 by Hon. Joshua Hill, M. C. —The Hawkinsville Dispatch announces the death, in Wilcox county, of Hon. George R Reid, at the age of seventy five years. He was a large stock raiser in that section, very hospitable and popular. —The Sparta Ishmaelite has been investi gating the niatter, and is led to the conclu sion that ih> pubiio bcIW tel will, u.mewd of $60,000, realize only about S2O 000 from the fees from the inspection of fertilizers. —Mr. S?ney has completed the payment of his gifts to Wesleyan College, Macon— sso 000 bonus endowment, $40,000 cash for building the college, $5 000 for its library and scientific apparatus, $5,000 for new fur niture and improvement of the grounds. —How will this do for one man’s labor? Seven bales of cotton, 200 bushels of corn, 100 bushels of p as, 150 bushels potatoes, 80 gallons cane syrup. 25 bushels ground peas, 76 bushels oats. This will be produced this year by one of Talbot's steady going farmers. —The Dahlonega Signal says a much lar ger number of mines have been ‘old this season than ever before during the same period of time, and the buyers, principally eastern parties, are doing development work on the properties they have purchased. —Rome division of the E T., Va. and Ga. R R. is the name by which the railroad from Rome to Atlanta will be known. Work has begun, and the probability is that before twelve months from to day the cars on this new road will be making regular trips from Rome to Atlanta. —Oglethorpe Echo: “Mr. Seaborn Ay cock. ot this county, can stand in his field and, with a three foot stick, touch forty-five ears of corn without moving from his tracks. We learn that Mr. James M. Smith will make 9,000 bushels of corn on a single field. There is no danger of Starvation in old Ogle thorpe as yet.’’ —Montezuma Weekly: “We have been told that some citizens of Dooly offered hands sixty-five cents per hundred to pick cotton last week and could not get them, even at that price. They refused to work at all. Our laws ought to be made more rigid so far as it pertains to laborers. A man who has no visible means of support and won’t v ork, ought to be made work.” —Savannah News: “Several counties now have laws enabling them to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors at will. If those counties save their usual liquor bill this fall and winter, it will offset the damage by the drought. Every State in the Union spends enough money per annum for whisky te pay its ordinary public debt.” —The Ellijay Courier says: “The eastern portion of the county is in almost a fever of excitement over the discovery on the planta tion of Spencer Burrell, of a deposit of gold bearing quartz which it is said surpasses in richness anything ever discovered in the country It is said a large sum has been offered for this mine. It is in the Cartecay neighborhood.” —The New York Sun says: “There is a rich syndicate, with Ben Butler at the head, controlling millions of capital. It has been hinted that an effort will be made during the Exposition to induce a transfer of the machinery of the Sprague Mills, in Rhode Island, to Atlanta, or some other equally eligible point in Georgia. The inducement will be cheap fuel, food, clothing and a loca tion where the articles manufactured are raised. The expenses to the company would not be half as much in Atlanta as in Rhode Island. —Quitman Free Press: “Having inter viewed some of tbe best and most reliable farmers from different sections of the county, we are now prt pared to say that tbe crops are fairly good. The cottor crop is larger than last year and grades much better. Twenty five per cent, more will be realized for the crop of 1881 than for tbe crop of 1880. The corn crop is double that of last year, and is amply sufficient, if properly managed, to supply home demands and perhaps spare a few nubbins to our neighbors. The late rains have come in time to make peas, cane, rice and potatoes. In view of tbe distressing aeeounts which reach us from different sec tions of our own State, and other States, our people have much for which to be (hank-